WorkSir Edward Dyer

“My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is”

"My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is" (c. 1588; published in William Byrd's Psalmes, Sonets, & Songs, 1588), Inferred

Sir Edward Dyer (c. 1543–1607) · c. 1588; published in William Byrd's Psalmes, Sonets, & Songs, 1588

InferredAn epigraph characterizing Brown and Godwin appears here: "Such a man as Brown or Godwin has a right to say that." The Elizabethan poem "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is" is attributed to Sir Edward Dyer (c. 1543-1607) and was first published in Byrd's Psalmes, Sonets, & Songs (1588). Some scholars attribute it to Edward de Vere. The author and title are inferred from the quotation.

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Documented 1844

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New-York Daily Tribune

“Brown's Novels” · 1846

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“My mind to me a kingdom is.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p83

Inferred An epigraph characterizing Brown and Godwin appears here: "Such a man as Brown or Godwin has a right to say that." The Elizabethan poem “My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is” is attributed to Sir Edward Dyer (c. 1543-1607) and was first published in Byrd's Psalmes, Sonets, & Songs (1588). Some scholars attribute it to Edward de Vere. The author and title are inferred from the quotation.

An epigraph characterizing Brown and Godwin appears here: "Such a man as Brown or Godwin has a right to say that." The Elizabethan poem “My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is” is attributed to Sir Edward Dyer (c. 1543-1607) and was first published in Byrd's Psalmes, Sonets, & Songs (1588).